I thought we came to an end with this series, but I was wrong. So now we have the brother of Portia involved in guilt who is in love with Portia's best friend, who loves him back, but can love be stronger than ghosts? It seems so for a long time, but then we got our HEA. Nice story but nothing unforgettable.

This book is not great, especially because as a loyal reader, it is my right to expect something more from Nalini Singh, the same writer of "Kiss of Snow" to be clear, that she has not yet managed to overcome, especially with the book on Kaleb. But let's talk about Ivy and Vasic, whose book we waited for a while. Their situation works, but the book was at last a hundred pages too long, specially the middle. The Honeycomb might work and will do, then it is clear that the next books will be centered on Ming and probably on Aden also. Sadly, there is still a year to wait .....

lunedì, agosto 28, 2017

My God, I have to admit that I read this book really really fast because it's boring to death. I do not say that this book is not famous because it is and in that years was surely a big innovation, but I´m so happy that they move on ;)

lunedì, agosto 14, 2017

I read only the most famous (Sonnets from the Portuguese) and I have to say she is really great because she is in love but proud and not submissive which was not so granted for that times, because "the victorian woman" was submissive.

sabato, agosto 12, 2017

I had high expectations and I paid. Not a bad book, in fact nice, the steampunk part is done really well, but I was expecting something more after hearing more than a friend praising it. I will continue the series anyway, I can not resist!

Updates to the first book, which was already beautiful and interesting on its own. Now, after nearly a decade, here are provided more examples and clarification of certain issues relating to the sustainability of upcycling. However, a great read.

domenica, agosto 06, 2017

A book of love as there are so many, the two characters are not bad but in the end they are far from being unforgettable. The history of the brand of Satan also has seemed to me a bit too overused in a blurred plot.

venerdì, agosto 04, 2017

I thought a bit before writing this review because I usually like King's books almost without reservation, but this time is different. This novel is a long race against time, in which the good cop has to find the dangerous killer who is not serial, he's almost worse, because he is one mass murderer. The characters are, as usual, well-built and tension remains high, the thing that does not work for me are all the tricks that King is forced to use to handle situations in which he got sticked. Can it be so easy to find the passwords for the computer? is it possible for a woman on the edge of the psychotic break to be able to handle an extremely stressful situation and furthermore being another computer genius? is it possible that the cold murder loose his head so easily? is it possible that the best friend of a white retired police officer, closer to 70 than to 60, is a 17 year old black kid? I do not know, there have been too many escamotages in this book, too many solutions of convenience, that somehow I was disappointed, but mind you it is not a bad book, it just seems written by Deaver .....

mercoledì, agosto 02, 2017

This book is really very interesting and clear. Three years ago I attended a lecture by one of the authors, and I found this upcycling idea really brilliant and reading the book only confirmed my original idea. I share only slightly less their optimistic view, but still, I'm a bit too cynical by nature.

A huge anthology of the best urban fantasy short stories told by the point of view of the most notorious and nefarious villains.... It is not bad, but in a way it spoiled all my favorite series, specially the one I'm most attached to: Kevin Hearne's druids and Butcher's Dresden Files, because I didn't want to like the villains mostly.

Another spin off that comes to an end and I appreciate that a lot. At the beginning I was not interested so much in this series, but it really grew on me and I'm happy that I read all the installment and this especially: I loved Bear so much!

The usual Chomsky with his view of the world with whom I agree, even because otherwise I wouldn't read his books. My only question is why the title is optimism over despair when, after reading the book, despair overwhelms optimism by far....

I liked this book a lot, even if I had no idea there was a Shin Buddhism in the world. The author explain with the right number of words the main topic and gives us in the end a brief discussion to clarify the most important points related to the subject. I had a sort of enilightment reading this book, even because the last chapter is dedicated to a comparison between Shin and Zen Buddhism and I have to say the the first approach is better for me.